GTA Online can be like marmite, you either love it or you hate it. One thing that everyone always seems in unison over, however, is the well crafted stories Rockstar Games has released over the years.
In a recent interview with GQ Magazine about the new Cayo Perico Heist content in GTA Online, two of the developers at Rockstar Games, Tarek Hamad and Scott Butchard, briefly spoke about this topic, confirming that the studio will "absolutely" continue to tell single-player stories in the future, regardless of GTA Online's success.
"Whatever lies ahead for the inevitable sixth entry in the iconic series, Hamad is conclusive when we ask if Rockstar will continue to tell single-player stories, even as Online goes from strength to strength: 'Absolutely.'"
The two developers also touched upon the new update's single-player functionality - a first for Heists in GTA Online - and how Rockstar wants to bring more single player-content into GTA Online in the future:
“I think you can see [a blend of solo and multi-play] with Online and I think going forward we’re going to inject more of that single-player element in there.”
Famously, Grand Theft Auto V has yet to receive any offline single-player DLC, whereas GTA IV featured the two incredible expansions: The Lost and the Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony. While we’ll probably won't see anything on that level, it's good to know Rockstar isn't planning on giving up on the single player narratives anytime soon.
Do you prefer single-player or multiplayer content in Rockstar's games? Let us know in the comments below.
[source gq-magazine.co.uk]
Comments (14)
I just want another bully game. The original is still my favourite rockstar game to date
By being "absolutely" committed they have made precisely 1 of them in the 7 years of Xbox One and PS4 and with no sign of another any time soon. Imagine what would happen if they weren't that bothered and just farmed the market for shark cards 🤔
GTA 6 and Red Dead Redemption 3 for current gen please..
@Steel76 @carlos82 Rock Star is my favorite casino.
Rdr2 certainly spared no expense, but it also seems to be the only non gtao game they've bothered with, and then forgot about. Heck they never even fixed the rdr2 controls. And the hdr is indeed terrible. It's clear they just don't care.
I think of gtao as an mmo at this point. People still play wow just because they're so invested in it. You play it because you play it, not because you enjoy it. And I remember when blizzard abandoned real games once they discovered the mmo gold mine as well
@Steel76 Depends how many more decades it's still the #1 selling game i guess. Ill never understand it. At least shark cards are aptly named.
@NEStalgia I'm a big fan of the first Red Dead Redemption but don't like the second mainly due to its awful controls, that and its love of using a menu to camp and more menu's to craft items one at a time and generally wasting your time with fancy animations. Oh and Arthur's inability to carry more than 2 big guns for "realism" all whilst carrying 15 gold bars, 20 bottles of varying sizes, 10 packs of cigarettes, 10 cans of fruit, $1500 in loose coins and a dead sparrow and yes its HDR is probably the worst I've seen in a big budget game. 10/10
Max Payne 3 Remaster will be gem.
Urgh. Mentioning GTA online in the reply when asked about Single Player is such a wormy response. GTA6 is not happening unless people stop playing/buying GTA5.
There is no denying how Rockstar has really slowed down and how they focued on nothing besides RDR and GTA for a long time now. I miss the days when we got games like Midnight Club and Bully.
Well their actions say "absolutely not". Even more so when they mention trying to make more single player elements for online.
@carlos82 I'll second those awful controls. It put me off it fast. Lots of reviews complained. I figured they'd patch it out fast, but no. The menus make me think of animal crossing new horizons.
Fancy animations... Yeah, store shopping and having to pick up and spin every item around is cool, visually, but it gets old fast.
I keep thinking that rdr2 was a game designed around the idea that vr would become standard. Everything in it seems perfectly designed for a vr game. But that never happened.
That hdr is horrid though. It's what's preventing me from continuing the game. I didn't have an hdr display when i played in 1x. I didn't believe it when darkstar was telling me about it. Then i tried it. Whitewashed no matter how i set it. And i refuse to set the whole system to sd just for one game.
And i still don't get the appeal of gtav. I played in when it was still new, early on ps4. It was a middling open world game with few real events and overloaded with pot jokes and strippers. Frat boy fun at best.
Their comment makes it sound the single player stuff is mostly going to be solo missions for GTA Online.
I kinda feel I aleady played my last Rockstar game.
I want something new. Adding to GTA 5 online is fine but none of it really feels new now after 7 years of the same map. Red Dead 2 is getting old now too. With RDR2 there is the yet to be used Mexico map, however that would be old too as it is the map from RD1 i first played 10 years ago.
great news I only play single player games
I couldn’t care less about GTA Online. I just want them to make a new GTA, as I do like those games.
But as someone else said, just like Blizzard, Rockstar has found a $$$$ making gold mine, so who knows if we’ll ever get another great single player story in the GTA universe?
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